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economist.com slash new year offer. It starts in November. Christmas catch-up. Let's do

diaries. Oh, that clashes with my work, do. That's the day of the nativity.

We're booked to see Santa.

We're out picking a tree.

There's in-laws to visit, pantomimes to see.

I've got to write a thousand Christmas cards.

Until somehow, we're here.

Four friends having our Costa Christmas catch-up.

We should do this more often.

Get together this Christmas around the festive nutcracker range at Costa.

Costa Coffee.

Hey everybody.

Hope you're having a wonderful holiday.

Tom Merritt here.

And a couple of you suggested that it would be fun before we do our predictions results show to put last year's predictions show in the feed. That way, if you want, you can listen to all of our

predictions from last year. And then when we do our predictions results show, it'll actually be

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